Carrier route record
AABOS→MCO
American Airlines · Boston to Orlando
- Flights
- 213
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 5%
- Carriers
- 6
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with American Airlines.
American on BOS to MCO lands a B, 2 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by close to two hours on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 213 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Delta Air Lines, flew 1,257 at 75.4% on time.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, so there is little to separate American on BOS to MCO from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
79.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 207 completed flights
Avg delay
105 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.82%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
70.1%
Every carrier on BOS to MCO, 4,606 flights
These figures cover 213 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.6% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.
Carrier by carrier
American against every carrier on BOS to MCO
American flew 213 of the 4,606 flights on BOS to MCO, about 5% of it. Its 79.2% on time is 9 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 70.1%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of six carriers on the route, where the range runs from American at 79.2% to Southwest at 50.0%. Two of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Delta Air Lines arrives on time 75.4% of the time; Spirit Airlines manages 63.5%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 515 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Airlines (this page)thin sample | 213 | 79.2% | 105 min | 2.82% | B |
| Delta Air Lines | 1,257 | 75.4% | 80 min | 2.15% | B |
| Frontier Airlinesthin sample | 124 | 69.9% | 66 min | 0.00% | C+ |
| JetBlue Airways | 2,493 | 67.9% | 73 min | 2.89% | C |
| Spirit Airlines | 515 | 63.5% | 80 min | 4.08% | D− |
| Southwest Airlinesthin sample | 4 | 50.0% | 19 min | 0.00% | F+ |
Spirit Airlines cancels 4.1% of what it schedules here, the highest in the table. A cancelled flight never appears in an on-time rate, so read that column alongside the punctuality one rather than after it.
Departure window
When American runs best on this route
Departure time is the single lever a traveller controls, and it moves the odds more than most people expect. Each bar below is the on-time rate for flights scheduled to leave inside that window, across 213 flights.
There are not enough flights in each departure window to split American's BOS to MCO record by time of day without the percentages moving on noise. The headline rate of 79.2% is the reliable figure here.
Across the year
American on BOS to MCO through the year
- Oct–Dec 202514 flights—
- Jan–Mar 2026100 flights74.5%
- Apr–Jun 202699 flights86.9%
Scale runs 65% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 79.2% on time across 213 flights.
Split by quarter, American on BOS to MCO logged 14 flights in Oct–Dec 2025, 100 flights in Jan–Mar 2026 and 99 flights in Apr–Jun 2026. Fewer than three of those quarters carried the 30 completed flights this site needs before printing a rate, so the 79.2% annual figure is the one to use.
Across the week, Friday is the strongest day at 78.1% on time and Saturday the weakest at 67.5%. 11 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.
Delay causes
Why American runs late on this route
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 46% of the 4,523 delay minutes carriers reported, and the remaining four split what is left. The split is by minutes rather than by flights, so a few very long delays count for as much as many short ones.
- 46%Late-arriving aircraft
- 29%Carrier
- 23%National Airspace System
- 2%Extreme weather
46% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 4,523 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 21 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit. The split is drawn from 4,523 reported delay minutes.
The practical consequence: the 8am–11am departure is the one that starts clean. Its aircraft has no earlier leg to be late from, which is exactly why that window shows 79.5% on time here.
Cancellations run at 2.82%, against 1.81% nationally. That is roughly one flight in 40 cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 10.6% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
The 1,121 miles between these two airports put this in the middle of the US network, around two and a half to three hours of block time. That is enough cruise to absorb a ten-minute late pushback and not enough to absorb thirty. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 66.8% on time across 213 flights, 12 points below this direction. Departure banks, aircraft rotations and the congestion at each end all differ, so scoring the two directions together would average away a real 12 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 213 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor but not enough to pin the rate down tightly, and a single bad week moves it by more than a point. Treat the grade as a rough reading.
What to do with this
Booking American on BOS to MCO
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 2.82% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you close to two hours; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 8am–11am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 207 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- BOS to MCO, every carrier
- American on MCO to BOS, the return leg
- Delta Air Lines on BOS to MCO75.4%
- Frontier Airlines on BOS to MCO69.9%
- JetBlue Airways on BOS to MCO67.9%
- Spirit Airlines on BOS to MCO63.5%
- American Airlines network-wide record
- Boston Logan International (BOS) delay statistics
- Orlando International (MCO) delay statistics
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- Same route, different airline: where the carrier you pick matters most
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.